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> Google reviews every extension and update on the Chrome Web Store Absolutely not true. No one has the manpower to actually review/understand all the code tha

> Google reviews every extension and update on the Chrome Web Store Absolutely not true. No one has the manpower to actually review/understand all the code that is being pushed to the store. Extensions are automatically approved after a few minutes. Mozilla tries but it's more of a spot check after the extension is being published.

lapcat 4y ago
> Extensions are automatically approved after a few minutes. This is not true in my experience. In fact I've experienced reviews lasting days or weeks with the Chrome Web Store.
- laundermaf 4y ago
  It depends on how new the extension is, probably. It does occasionally get stuck in review, but definitely not "every extension and update". Mozilla tried to do that and had to backtrack a few years ago.
  - lapcat 4y ago
    Again, this is contrary to my years long experience with the Chrome Web Store.
chidg 4y ago
I work for a company whose primary product is an extension. From my experience it's quite random; sometimes an update will pass 'review' a few hours after submission (never a few minutes, but it's clearly not being reviewed in any depth) and other times it will be held up for a few days, a week, or up to 15 days recently. It seems to be a lottery, where your chances of a manual review are increased by requiring certain permissions and other factors the chrome gods decide are risky. In our case they have rejected updates several times for spurious reasons, like claiming we do not use the notifications permission although we asked for it - even though use of the `.notifications` method on the chrome javascript api was visible in our code. I think GPs point stands - whether or not they actually review every update, they make the claim that extensions are reviewed, and they're reviewed often enough that they should be able to catch genuinely dangerous extensions.

lapcat 4y ago

> Extensions are automatically approved after a few minutes. This is not true in my experience. In fact I've experienced reviews lasting days or weeks with the Chrome Web Store.

laundermaf 4y ago
It depends on how new the extension is, probably. It does occasionally get stuck in review, but definitely not "every extension and update". Mozilla tried to do that and had to backtrack a few years ago.
- lapcat 4y ago
  Again, this is contrary to my years long experience with the Chrome Web Store.

chidg 4y ago

I work for a company whose primary product is an extension. From my experience it's quite random; sometimes an update will pass 'review' a few hours after submission (never a few minutes, but it's clearly not being reviewed in any depth) and other times it will be held up for a few days, a week, or up to 15 days recently. It seems to be a lottery, where your chances of a manual review are increased by requiring certain permissions and other factors the chrome gods decide are risky. In our case they have rejected updates several times for spurious reasons, like claiming we do not use the notifications permission although we asked for it - even though use of the `.notifications` method on the chrome javascript api was visible in our code. I think GPs point stands - whether or not they actually review every update, they make the claim that extensions are reviewed, and they're reviewed often enough that they should be able to catch genuinely dangerous extensions.